NEStopia is one of the best ROM emulators available on Mac OS X. For those of you unaware of what ROMs are, they are basically ported versions of your favorite oldschool console games. There are other applications available to play N64, PS1 and other older console games on your Mac or PC, but as a [...]
If your a big fan of Dashboard and run a ton of widgets, then you’ve most likely noticed a big lag in how snappy dashboard is at coming up if you havent restarted your computer in a while. I try to keep the widgets limited to ones that I really use rather than just having [...]
Trapper Keeper is one of those lesser known but really applications. I came across it the other night and immediately thought of some good uses for it.  Trapper Keeper looks and functions very similarly to Spotlight, but it stores random pieces of information that you can access quickly and easily. I wrote before about how [...]
iStumber is a free wireless network detection tool for OS X that is able to detect Apple Airport networks, bluetooth devices, as well as Bonjour services on your Mac. iStumbler presents some pretty good information regarding each of the available networks such as SSIDs, whether it is a secure network or open, as well as [...]
AppDelete is a free alternative to the popular AppZapper. It works very similar in that you just drag and dropp the application over to the AppDelete icon and you’ll get a confirmation window displaying the name of the app you are trying to delete. One difference in AppDelete and AppZapper is that AppDelete will create [...]
I posted last week about an applescript to convert video for AppleTV which may be a bit advanced for some people. Well only a few days have passed an application has been released to make the conversion for you. ViddyUp is a simple app that is just as easy to use as the applescript would [...]
One thing that Microsoft got right was the use of pop up notifications for new email messages. Out of the box Apple Mail doesnt have a pop up feature so the community made one themselves. Mail Appetizer has been around for quite a while now, and I’ve been using it for around a year now, [...]
Last week Apple began shipping their new Apple TV product which allows you to stream video from your mac to your TV. Their thought behind this is that when you buy movies from the iTunes movie store you will obviously want to watch them on your big HD TV rather than sitting at your computer. [...]
Many people absolutley love the brushed metal appearance in OS X. I hate it, and think it looks terrible. I was pleased with the smoothed version of iTunes when they switched it in version 6 and 7 and wished I could make the rest of the OS look the same. I came across Uno when [...]
OS X comes with a compression utility built right into the OS and works perfectly fine. That is unless you want to send the zipped file to someone on a PC. To use the built in archiver to create zip files in OS X just right click on the file(s) you want to zip and [...]